Anyone read books anymore?

[blackpowder]

This thread has me a little nostalgic.
Pre internet, pre sat tv.
All I did was read after chores as a kid. The World Book Encyclopedia was a constant go to. Often just because there may have been nothing else at the time.
It seems the internet is a poor substitute for that kind of companionship.
Something to ponder while slogging through the deepening pile of crap.

[biglentil]

If you own some of the banned Dr. Suess they have sure sky rocketed in price. Im unfamiliar with James Herriot any favorites of his? I'm going to place an order for reading time to the boys.

[burnt]

If you own some of the banned Dr. Suess they have sure sky rocketed in price. Im unfamiliar with James Herriot any favorites of his? I'm going to place an order for reading time to the boys.

I have a set of 3 James Herriot books which were later compiled in "All Creatures Great and Small", alternately amusing, touching and all around good story-telling.

Some of his lines are so memorable, such as when the dog who loved surprising people jumped up put of the grass in front of him with an explosive "WOOF' right in his face. Herriot says that it about caused him "...an involuntary evacuation of the bowels...", a line that I've fully understood a time or two since I read it...

Also, there have been occasions when I resorted to one of his customer's verbiage when handling uncooperative cows - "MOVE OVER, YOU SHITTIN' OLD BOVRIL!", much to my helper's disgust...

Children's version as pictured -

[GALAXIE500]

.. a real r code? your car?

That is not my car , man I wish ! I have 2 68 Galaxies , one is an XL fastback with a 302 , 44,000 original miles. The other one is a 68 Galaxie 500 restomod with a 428 big block , c-6 automatic. Was originally a 302 car also.

[shtferbrains]

Car in the picture 66 Thunderbolt?

[GALAXIE500]

Car in the picture 66 Thunderbolt?

That is a 64 R code custom . R code means it had a 427 big block. Very rare , wish I owned it !

[furrowtickler]

This is a good read ..

[A990]

Car in the picture 66 Thunderbolt?

it does look like a thunderbolt, just Xtra Large lol

[A990]

That is not my car , man I wish ! I have 2 68 Galaxies , one is an XL fastback with a 302 , 44,000 original miles. The other one is a 68 Galaxie 500 restomod with a 428 big block , c-6 automatic. Was originally a 302 car also.

Nice..
Our family had a plain jane '69 Custom with a 302 when i was a kid. Somehow became a mopar guy though..
my car

[burnt]

If you own some of the banned Dr. Suess they have sure sky rocketed in price. Im unfamiliar with James Herriot any favorites of his? I'm going to place an order for reading time to the boys.

I've about worn out reading "The Whos of Whoville" to our oldest grandchildren.

They love that story and I just hope they get the lesson in it.

[blackpowder]

Wow, just googled banned books.
Little House on the Prairie, Babar, Dr. Suess.
And yet Uncle Tom's Cabin is an educational period piece.
Chuck's hypocrisy is literally world wide.

[Blaithin]

Little House on the Prairie isn’t banned. Certain parts/words have been changed to be more “politically correct”.

Improper use of the word banned in these cases is showing most people crying about it should do more reading to expand their vocabulary.